The Department of Energy has won more R&D awards than any private sector organization, and twice as many as all other federal agencies combined. Recent awards include:
As the U.S. Government's top sponsor of research on promising technologies,
the Department of Energy is responsible for many key events in the fields of:
Energy has a long history. Beginning back before people could read and write, fire was discovered to be good for cooking, heating and scaring wild animals away. Then there was the steam-driven Industrial Revolution, followed by an era of electricity-powered machines, followed by a relatively nuclear era.
